Re: BUG: which-func-mode

From:

Robert J. Chassell

Subject:

Re: BUG: which-func-mode

Date:

Mon, 17 Mar 2003 12:51:07 +0000 (UTC)

You are right, there is a confusion regarding `select-window'.
As you point out
select-window does not "display the buffer"
and as is said in
(elisp)The Buffer List
.... The order of the buffers in the list is based primarily on
how recently each buffer has been displayed in the selected
window. Buffers move to the front of the list when they are
selected....
Put another way, to be on the buffer list, a buffer must have been:
* displayed in a window
* that window selected
But according to its documentation, `select-window' only does the
latter. It does not do both.
I think the confusion arises because a window always displays
something -- after all that is what a window is. And in Emacs what a
window displays is a buffer.
Hence, `select-window' must display a buffer of some sort, although
nothing specifies which buffer is displayed.
Consequently, the two criteria for going onto the buffer list are met:
`select-window' must display some buffer in the window, and it also
selects the window. Unfortunately, the documentation does not make
this clear.
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